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Recuperate
To recover health and strength. From the Latin recuperare meaning to regain, get back, recover. To recuperate is to convalesce
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- Limb The arm or leg.
- Index case A person who first draws attention to their family. For example, if my eye doctor discovers I have glaucoma…
- Pseudomonas pseudomallei A bacteria that causes an infectious illness called melioidosis or Whitmore's disease that is most frequent…
- RDA Abbreviation for the Recommended Dietary Allowance. Or, popularly, the Recommended Daily Allowance
- Meningitis, bacterial Inflammation of the meninges due to a bacterial infection. Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) was the…
- Alice in Wonderland syndrome A syndrome of distorted space, time and body image. The patient with the Alice in Wonderland syndrome has a…
- Heel spur A bony spur projecting from the back or underside of the heel that often makes walking painful. Spurs at the…
- Muscular dystrophy, tibial A specific form of muscular dystrophy in which weakness is usually confined to the anterior compartment (the…
- Syphilitic 1. Relating to syphilis, caused by it, or suffering from it.2. A person with syphilis. From the French…
- Chromatophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of money. Sufferers experience undue anxiety even though they realize their…